Psience News - 29 March-4 April 2020

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This is a listing of news items about parapsychology, psi, the paranormal and related subjects, posted to the Psience Quest Forums. We hope that news about parapsychology is adequately covered here, but news about other topics will represent only a selection.

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Upcoming events are also listed in the Calendar section.

For news during other periods, see the Psience News Index.

Extended consciousness phenomena

Books and book reviews

  • A review by Tim Prasil of Paranormal Wales by Tim Rees has appeared on the SPR's website (Discuss)
  • A video review by Andreas Sommer of The Myth of Disenchantment by Jason A. Josephson-Storm has appeared on the Forbidden Histories YouTube channel (Discuss)

Periodicals, published papers and preprints

  • Volume 23 number 1 - the Spring 2020 edition - of the Skeptical Intelligencer has been circulated and can temporarily be downloaded here (Discuss)
  • Dr. Jack Hunter has put out a call for papers for a Special Issue of Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture edited by himself and Dr. Tina Paphitis. Papers for the special issue should "explore the impact and use of folklore in landscape interactions, and how these engagements help, hinder or have the potential to contribute to broader debates and policies surrounding environmental sustainability and social activism in the past and present" (Discuss)

Psi Encyclopedia

New entries in the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia

Articles and blog posts

Videos

Interviews

Cryptozoology and ufology

Articles and blog posts

Shows, documentaries, and movies

Interviews

Spirituality

Videos

  • A video of a 1998 talk "The Healing Pump" by Chip Brown has been published by the YouTube channel of the Parapsychology Foundation (Discuss)

Upcoming events

From this and previous pages of Psience News. For further details, see the Calendar section.

  • 15 January - 31 March 2020: Online
Nancy Zingrone's and Carlos Alvarado's free course, "Parapsychology Research & Education: Psychology and Parapsychology" (ParaMOOC2020) (Discuss; Calendar Entry)
  • 6 April - 19 June 2020: Online
An eleven-week course entitled "Introduction to Parapsychology" organised by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at Edinburgh University (Discuss; Calendar Entry)
  • 25 April 2020: Online (NEW)
A webinar entitled "Psi in the Natural World" presented by Dr. Cal Cooper and organised by the Forever Family Foundation (Discuss; Calendar Entry)
  • 10 - 12 July 2020: Chester, Connecticut, USA (NEW)
The "Love Knows No Death Summer Grief Transformation Retreat 2020" organised by the Forever Family Foundation (Discuss; Calendar Entry)
  • 28 October - 2 November 2020: Rice University, Houston, Texas
A conference entitled "Opening The Archives Of The Impossible", to mark the launch of a research facility including the archives of Jacques Vallee, Whitley Strieber, Ed May, Richard Haines and Larry Bryant (Discuss; Calendar Entry)